Meet Matilde
********************************************************Story Donated By Beate Rohle
I would like to introduce you to Matilde. Matilde is a flower-pot-duck, orange glazed pottery - quite useful if you like that sort of thing. She’s got proper eyes (like an old fashioned teddy bear) and lovely stripes.
My (then) best friend S. bought her at a flea market in Paris, back in 1994. We named her together and, for about a year, Matilde took a place of honour on the windowsill of the small flat we shared in Berlin.
I fell out with S. some time after Matilde and me moved to Leeds, and Matilde is getting rather dusty on a shelf in the kitchen - I could never part with my duck, though!
PS. Having written this, and having dusted off Matilde for the photograph, I think I might just find her a new place of honour!
Beate Rohle
June 4th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
It’s sad that you fell out with S. Perhaps you could make up for the sake of matilde - I always feel it’s the glazed pottery that suffers in these situations. x
June 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Not at present, but maybe for Matilde’s 20th anniversary in 2014 - any earlier reconciliation attempts might result in the breaking of glazed pottery…